1st Edition
Michael Paul Rogin Derangement and Liberalism
Introduction: The Political Thought of Michael Rogin
Alyson Cole and George Shulman
PART I - Demonology and Countersubversion
Chapter 1 Preface [to Ronald Reagan, The Movie: And Other Episodes in Political Demonology] (1987)
Chapter 2 Political Repression in the United States (1987)
Chapter 3 American Political Demonology: A Retrospective (1987)
PART II - The Psychic Life of Liberal Society
Chapter 4 Liberal Society and the Indian Question (1971)
Chapter 5 "The Sword Became a Flashing Vision": D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation (1985)
Chapter 6 Two Declarations of American Independence (1996)
Chapter 7 Kiss Me Deadly: Communism, Motherhood, and Cold War Movies (1984)
Part III - Political Mediation: Institutions and Culture
Chapter 8 The King’s Two Bodies: Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon, and Presidential Self-Sacrifice (1979)
Chapter 9 Herman Melville: State, Civil Society and the American 1848 (1979)
Chapter 10 "Make My Day!": Spectacle as Amnesia in Imperial Politics (1990)
Chapter 11 Protest Politics and the Pluralist Vision (1967)
Chapter 12 In Defense of the New Left (1983)
Conclusion: Theorizing with Rogin Now
Alyson Cole and George Shulman
Biography
Alyson Cole is a professor of political science, women’s and gender studies, and American studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of The Cult of True Victimhood: From the War on Welfare to the War on Terror, and articles in journals such as Signs, Critical Horizons, and WSQ. Cole is co-editor of philoSOPHIA: A Journal of transContinental Feminism, and a principal scholar in the "Vulnerable & Dynamic Forms of Life" International Network of Research, an interdisciplinary research collective supported by funding from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris.
George Shulman is a professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University. He has authored two books: Radicalism and Reverence: Gerrard Winstanley and the English Revolution, and American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture, which won the 2010 David Eastman Prize for best book in political theory. He co-edited Radical Futures Past: Untimely Political Theory, and has published essays in journals such as Raritan, Political Theory, Contemporary Political Thought, and New Literary History. His current book project is entitled: Living Postmortem: Impasse and Genre in American Politics and Literature.
